The Forested Path (and Beyond): BUTTERFLIES of RAUB: The Fourbar Swordtail, Graphium (Pathysa) agetes iponus (Fruhstorfer)

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The Fourbar Swordtail, Graphium (Pathysa) agetes iponus (Fruhstorfer)

This butterfly is closely related to the Fivebar Swordtail but has a more delicate appearance and is much rarer, confined only to deeply forested and hilly areas. Seasonal, mostly encountered in the months of January till March and therein becoming scarce.

Habitat indicator

RSP	WV	PG	VF	FTR	SC	LWDF	LWPF	LMEF	UMN	MN
						x	x	x	x

Frequency observation chart: (S marks the usual occurences, H marks an unusually high occurence, F for first record)

2013
Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct
S3	S1S3	S1S3	S1		S3

2013		2014
Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct
			S1H	S1H	S1S2	S1S2	S1S2				S3

2014

2015

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mac

Apr

May

June

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

S1H

2016
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
S1S3	S3		S1	S1S3	S1

2017
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
	S3	S1(H)

2018
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
					S5	S5	S5	S5	S5

2019
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
	S1S16

2020
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Above photos all taken on 17 march 2013 @14: 15

Above photo taken on 24 April 2013 @ 12:59

Above 2 photos from 25 August 2013 @ 11:51

After a bout of unexpected cold drafts, the weather took a sudden hot and dry character and it "silenced" the activities. However, these swordtails seem to be suddenly active and were found in numbers in a hill area. Above 3 photos from 18 Feb 2014 @ 15:09